![]() ![]() She drives him around to multiple banks to deposit the money in savings accounts for Joe’s college. Joe entrusts her with the secret that he has found forty-thousand dollars in a doll. Initially, she is introduced as a weary, beaten-down stripper, but is revealed to be tough, capable, and often very funny. ![]() The case is dismissed ‘with prejudice’ (-–) Another exploration of justice in the book takes place with an intersectional perspective, that of Sonya, Joe’s uncle’s girlfriend. in order to develop the land that Linda inherited, Grace attempts to gain custody, supposedly due to Linda being severely depressed and mentally incompetent. Linda was adopted by a Native American family. This is evident nowhere more than when Grace Lark tries to assume custody of her daughter, Linda, abandoned due to a birth defect. The Larks are an example of racial injustice around Native American communities, and in some heinous ways. ![]() He also goes on to say ‘The Larks are the sort of people who trot out their relationships with Good Indians’, who they secretly despise and openly patronize, in order to prove their general love for Indians, whom they are engaged in cheating’ (Erdrich, 50). ![]() This both introduces the Larks and the racism perpetuated by them and their fellows, and also introducing the concept of justice, given that the law would naturally be against the actions of the Larks and yet they get away with it. ![]()
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